David N Anthony

Career

David has a national litigation practice representing companies in highly regulated industries, including consumer financial services companies. He has significant experience in class actions and complex individual lawsuits. He has significant litigation experience defending cases under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and numerous other federal and state consumer protection statutes, with particular expertise in matters that often involve companion government investigations.

Clients rely on David to resolve their most difficult and complex legal and business challenges both in and out of the courtroom. David’s experience includes matters involving issues of first impression; bet-the-company litigation; the unique challenges of class actions lawsuits and mass litigation; cutting-edge claims under the FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, and other consumer protection statutes; Tribal law in the Native American online lending context; and the overlap between class action lawsuits and regulatory litigation by federal and state regulators.

David has served as lead counsel in more than 100 class action lawsuits and more than 1,500 individual lawsuits in courts across the U.S. He understands the outsized financial risks and high stakes associated with class-action lawsuits that impact how these cases are defended, tried, and settled. David has special experience in handling cases in the Eastern District of Virginia (also known as the Rocket Docket), that has unique rules, risks, and pitfalls for defendants.

Professional Memberships

Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Governing Committee, Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL)

Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Chair of the FCRA Subcommittee of the ABA Business Litigation Section, Consumer Litigation Committee

Committee on Federal Judgeships, Virginia Bar Association

Virginia State Bar Professionalism Course Faculty

Personal

Greater Richmond Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN), Board of Directors, 2003-2009

Hospital Hospitality House, Board of Directors, 2003-2008

Richmond Ballpark Initiative, Board member (nonprofit civic group seeking to relocate minor league ballpark to downtown Richmond)

Leadership Metro Richmond, Class of 2004 (community leadership development program)

Recipient, Pro Bono Award, Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association, 1994 (for organizing and running Pro Bono Hotline in which volunteer attorneys assisted the Tidewater Legal Aid Society)